Zugg Software :: View topic - Alias for capitalization and punctuation in says/tells/etc?

Newbie Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 4

Is there a way to automatically capitalize sentences, and add punctuation if there isn't already (defaulting to a period)?

i.e.

say testing
You say, 'Testing.'
say testing!
You say, 'Testing!'
say Testing
You say, 'Testing.'

I've searched the forums and haven't found anything illuminating.

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 2:02 pm

for the caps use the %proper() format.
But of course you'll have to do either as an oninput or an alias

#alias say {~say %proper(%1)}

typed: say test
result: You say 'Test'

so that works.

as for the punctuation, that's more like using %replace, but not sure how that would be done.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

well if aliasing, this could very easily be done as such
pattern: say
value #send {say %proper(%1).}

Tested and it works.

Newbie Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 4

The point is, I would want to add punctuation only if there wasn't punctuation there already. What you propose would result in:

say what the heck?
You say, "What the heck?."

Also, for some reason using %proper removes commas. Is there a way to avoid this?

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:01 pm

#send {say %proper("%-1")%if(!%ismember(%rightback(%proper("%-1"),1),"?|.|!"))}

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2001 Posts: 198 Location: USA

Or try this:

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

If you only want to do it with 'say' this would work:
#ONINPUT {^say (*)$} {#IF (%match(%rightback("%1",1),"[.!?]")=0) {say %proper("%1").} {say %proper("%1")}}
If you want to cover more channels then this will do better:
#ONINPUT {^((?:say|tell \w+|ask)) (.*)$} {#IF (%match(%rightback("%2",1),"[.!?]")=0) {#SUB {%1 %proper("%2").}} {#SUB {%1 %proper("%2")}}} "" {regex}

Newbie Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 4

I ended up going with this, as %proper would lowercase the rest of my sentence- not what I wanted.

#ONINPUT {^((?:say*|te*l* \w+|ask|')) *(.)(.*)$} {#IF (%match( %rightback( "%3", 1), "[.!?]")=0) {#SUB {%1 %proper("%2")%3.}} {#SUB {%1 %proper("%2")%3}}} "" {regex}

(and for anyone searching: punctuation capitalization autopunctuate autopunctuation)

Thanks, everyone!

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

well, that's the point of proper casing a sentence. Only the first word and proper nouns are supposed to be capitolized.